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    • SSmith1226
      SSmith1226 last edited by

      In this day and age of wokeness, it is about time trumpet players get the utmost respect, which obviously they deserve. Without the trumpet section most bands sound like crap, unless it is a ukulele band, They sound like crap, with or without a trumpet section.
      The following are the do’s and don’s of addressing a trumpet player with respect. You can pass this chart out to your bandmates so they address us in the proper manner.

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      Steve Smith

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      • barliman2001
        barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

        Two elderly ladies are sitting on a bench in a cemetery. Suddenly, one pulls out some cosmetics and begins making up her face. With a sneer, the other lady asks, "How old are you?" - "79" - "And you still bother about make-up?" Silence. Then the reply: "And how old are you?" - "84" - "And you still bother about going home??"

        Courtois Balanced
        Courtois D
        Olds Recording
        Buescher Aristocrat
        Gaudet C
        Selmer G
        Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
        Besson International Bb cornet
        Courtois Bb cornet
        B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
        B&H Sovereign trombone
        Willy Garreis trombone
        Weltklang Euph

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        • barliman2001
          barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

          And one more in the same vein... An old lady in a cemetery asks an attendant, "Excuse me, where's Grave 15, Row A?" - "That's funny... first sneak away, and then can't find your way back!"

          Courtois Balanced
          Courtois D
          Olds Recording
          Buescher Aristocrat
          Gaudet C
          Selmer G
          Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
          Besson International Bb cornet
          Courtois Bb cornet
          B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
          B&H Sovereign trombone
          Willy Garreis trombone
          Weltklang Euph

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          • barliman2001
            barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

            And a third one... A doctor meets his rival in a cemetery, "Oh, you're stocktaking..."

            Courtois Balanced
            Courtois D
            Olds Recording
            Buescher Aristocrat
            Gaudet C
            Selmer G
            Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
            Besson International Bb cornet
            Courtois Bb cornet
            B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
            B&H Sovereign trombone
            Willy Garreis trombone
            Weltklang Euph

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            • barliman2001
              barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

              Lady at the beauty clinic: "Doctor, I hope you can help me..." - Sorry, ma'am, I don't do decapitations."

              Courtois Balanced
              Courtois D
              Olds Recording
              Buescher Aristocrat
              Gaudet C
              Selmer G
              Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
              Besson International Bb cornet
              Courtois Bb cornet
              B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
              B&H Sovereign trombone
              Willy Garreis trombone
              Weltklang Euph

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              • barliman2001
                barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

                Wife to husband, "Cuddles, what do you like most about me: My face, or my body?" - "Your sense of humour."

                Courtois Balanced
                Courtois D
                Olds Recording
                Buescher Aristocrat
                Gaudet C
                Selmer G
                Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
                Besson International Bb cornet
                Courtois Bb cornet
                B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
                B&H Sovereign trombone
                Willy Garreis trombone
                Weltklang Euph

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                • Dr GO
                  Dr GO last edited by Dr GO

                  This answer was submitted to a bonus question at U of Arizona by a student on a mid-term Chemistry exam to the question:

                  Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

                  The student wrote: First we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell, and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. We can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume of Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionally, as souls are added.

                  This gives two possibilities:

                  1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
                  2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

                  So which is it? If we accept the postulates given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct... leaving only Heaven, thereby proving existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God!"

                  THE STUDENT WAS AWARDED AN A+ FOR THIS BONUS QUESTION.

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                  • barliman2001
                    barliman2001 Global Moderator @Dr GO last edited by

                    @dr-go That sounds rather like the explanation I gave to a group of Texan tourists when guiding them through the Golden Hall at Passau City Hall... There is a very large painting of the wedding of an Austrian Emperor to a Bavarian Princess, and I asked them whether they knew that the fact that the Emperor married in Passau was directly responsible for US Independence? No? Ok, here's the reason. If the Emperor had not married there, he would not have known about the Mariahilf Monastery there. He could not have made a pilgrimage there to pray for victory over the Turks (we're talking 17th cent. here). In consequence, he could not have defeated the Turks and would not have captured their camp. Therefore he would not have found the first bags of coffee in Europe. Without the coffee... there would not have been coffee houses in Vienna. And without them, there would not have been Edward Lloyd's Vienna Coffee House in Boston, Mass., where the conspirators for the Boston Tea Party used to meet and plot. And thus what is now the US would still be a group of English colonies... Long faces, "We didn't know thaaaat..." and the sounds of chins dropping to the polished marble floor... and a couple of English tourists were laughing their heads off...

                    Courtois Balanced
                    Courtois D
                    Olds Recording
                    Buescher Aristocrat
                    Gaudet C
                    Selmer G
                    Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
                    Besson International Bb cornet
                    Courtois Bb cornet
                    B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
                    B&H Sovereign trombone
                    Willy Garreis trombone
                    Weltklang Euph

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                    • BigDub
                      BigDub last edited by BigDub

                      What's his name? Said to the the dog owner.
                      HER/SHE
                      Oh, sorry to misgender your dog.
                      What's HER name?

                      No, his name is Hershey.

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                      Assorted other mp's not used
                      ( not very unusual….right? )

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                      • BigDub
                        BigDub last edited by

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                        I can relate to both…..

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                        • BigDub
                          BigDub @BigDub last edited by

                          @bigdub

                          Remember: every dead body left on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so, maybe, calm down.

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                          Assorted other mp's not used
                          ( not very unusual….right? )

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                          • administrator
                            administrator Global Moderator @BigDub last edited by

                            @bigdub said in A little humour:

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                            I can relate to both…..

                            Haha...cats. This is so true.

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                            • J. Jericho
                              J. Jericho Global Moderator last edited by

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                              "If it was just up to me, I'd only have trumpet players on my show." - Jackie Gleason

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                              • J. Jericho
                                J. Jericho Global Moderator last edited by J. Jericho

                                Thoughts for the day: Thanks to DST, noon occurs at 13:00/1:00 PM; midnight occurs at 01:00/1:00 AM. The Powers That Be hated DST (as do I and always have), so they made it permanent.

                                Some people refer to midnight and noon as 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM, respectively. 12:00 AM is by definition 12 hours before noon, and 12:00 PM is 12 hours after noon, thus making them both the same: midnight*.

                                *See paragraph 1.

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                                Shofar

                                "If it was just up to me, I'd only have trumpet players on my show." - Jackie Gleason

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                                • Newell Post
                                  Newell Post @J. Jericho last edited by Newell Post

                                  @j-jericho When I worked for one of the railroads, nothing ever happened at either noon or midnight. Everything happened at either 11:59 or 12:01 just to avoid confusion of the whole 12:00 am/pm thing.

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                                  Vintage: Committee (54), Recording (59), Super (49), Getzen Severinsen (66)
                                  C: Kanstul 1510, Constellation
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                                  Flugel: Kanstul 1525, Yamaha 625
                                  Conch shell in F

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                                  • administrator
                                    administrator Global Moderator @Newell Post last edited by

                                    @newell-post said in A little humour:

                                    @j-jericho When I worked for one of the railroads, nothing ever happened at either noon or midnight. Everything happened at either 11:59 or 12:01 just to avoid confusion of the whole 12:00 am/pm thing.

                                    I'm surprised they didn't just do 24-hour time and do away with the confusion of a 12-hour clock all together.

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                                    • Newell Post
                                      Newell Post @J. Jericho last edited by

                                      @j-jericho Before daylight savings time, people just adopted a "summer schedule" or "double summer schedule." In the former, they scheduled everything an hour earlier. In the latter, they scheduled everything hours earlier. Leave the clocks alone. Just change the schedule.

                                      Bb: Bach 180S37G (05), Mercedes (80)
                                      Vintage: Committee (54), Recording (59), Super (49), Getzen Severinsen (66)
                                      C: Kanstul 1510, Constellation
                                      D/Eb: Getzen Eterna
                                      Cornet: Schilke XA1, Yamaha Neo Eb
                                      Flugel: Kanstul 1525, Yamaha 625
                                      Conch shell in F

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                                      • Newell Post
                                        Newell Post @administrator last edited by

                                        @administrator You still have the problem of 00:00 hours.

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                                        Vintage: Committee (54), Recording (59), Super (49), Getzen Severinsen (66)
                                        C: Kanstul 1510, Constellation
                                        D/Eb: Getzen Eterna
                                        Cornet: Schilke XA1, Yamaha Neo Eb
                                        Flugel: Kanstul 1525, Yamaha 625
                                        Conch shell in F

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                                        • J. Jericho
                                          J. Jericho Global Moderator last edited by

                                          @administrator I prefer 24-hour time for the reasons; it's a logical arrangement to me.

                                          @Newell-Post Why is 00:00 a problem?

                                          '62 Olds Studio Trumpet
                                          '67 Olds Special Trumpet
                                          2013 Dillon Pocket Trumpet
                                          '83 Yamaha YFH-731 Flugelhorn
                                          1919 York Perfec-Tone Cornet
                                          '50 Olds Studio Trombone
                                          Shofar

                                          "If it was just up to me, I'd only have trumpet players on my show." - Jackie Gleason

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                                          • Dr GO
                                            Dr GO last edited by

                                            I was assigned to cover the newborn nursery on the fallback during Daylight Saving time and was attending a twin birth. Twin A (which is how we referred to the first born), was birthed at 1:59 am. Twin B arrived 10 minutes later, and with the setback occurring at 2 am, Twin B, the second born, was recorded as being born at 1:10 am. So by records, the youngest Twin was born 49 minutes based on Daylight Saving time as before his older brother.

                                            Allora Pocket Trumpet 2014
                                            Harrelson Summit 2017
                                            Kanstul 1526 2012
                                            Getzen Power Bore 1961
                                            Getzen Eterna 4-Valve Fulgelhorn 1974
                                            Martin Committee 1946
                                            Olds Super Recording 1940
                                            Olds Recording (LA) 1953
                                            Olds Recording (Fullerton) 1967
                                            Olds Ambassador 1965

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